Tag Archives: #Four Colour Model
Changing Personnel – People Leaving
When asked by the Insights Group to reflect on the main problems facing their businesses, top companies shared that changes in personnel due to people leaving their organisation was in the top ten. Insights Discovery uses a four colour model, comprised of Cool Blue, Fiery Red, Earth Green and Sunshine Yellow energies, to describe people’s strengths, styles and team contributions. Everyone has all four energies, although no one is strong in all four, and the unique combination of these helps to determine why we think each and behave the way we do. While for some, colleagues moving on is a fact of life and nothing to write home about, for others, the disruption and uncertainty caused by staff turnover can be devastating. Losing employees is inevitable. You might not be haemorrhaging staff to the competition, but even the best company …
Increasing agility (Top 10 Business Challenges)
Following consultation with a number of top companies, the Insights Group recognised that increasing agility was one of the top ten problems they faced. Insights Discovery uses a four colour model, comprised of Cool Blue, Fiery Red, Earth Green and Sunshine Yellow energies, to describe people’s strengths, styles and team contributions. Everyone has all four energies, although no one is strong in all four, and the unique combination of these helps to determine why we think each and behave the way we do. Universities Human Resources defines organisational agility as the ability to manage continuous, rapid and sustainable change. In an article published in McKinsey Quarterly, Aghina, De Smet, and Weerda suggest that an agilecompany is both stable and dynamic. While this may seem like an irreconcilable paradox, these two elements are both essential to creating an agile business. A …
Changes in Personnel due to people joining (Top 10 Business Challenges)
When the Insights Group asked them, top businesses identified changes in personnel due to people joining as one of their top ten challenges. Insights Discovery® uses a four colour model, comprised of Cool Blue, Fiery Red, Earth Green and Sunshine Yellow energies, to describe people’s strengths, styles and team contributions. The unique combination of these helps to determine why we each think and behave the way we do. A 2012 Allied Workforce Mobility Survey found that just 77% of new hires were still employed one year after starting at a company, while other research indicates that as many as 40% of employees quit within their first six months.How can an understanding of the four colour energies help to address this issue? A comprehensive induction process is essential to ensuring that the introduction of new staff is as disruption-free as possible …
Cost Reduction (Top 10 Business Challenges)
When business is good, it’s easy to forget that by implementing year-round cost reduction strategies, you may avoid having to take more drastic measures in leaner economic times. These strategies could range from reducing personnel or buying cheaper office supplies to converting manual processes to electronic ones, or outsourcing payroll or recruitment. Given the wide range of possibilities to consider, it is not surprising that different employees may have different approaches to cost reduction, depending on the combination of colour energies they are strong in. Insights Discovery® uses a four colour model, comprised of Cool Blue, Fiery Red, Earth Green and Sunshine Yellow energies, to describe people’s strengths, styles and team contributions. The unique combination of these helps to determine why we each think and behave the way we do. On a good day, an individual that can use Fiery Red …
Making organisational change (Top 10 Business Challenges)
The Insights Group surveyed several top companies and found that making organisational change was one of the top ten problems facing businesses today. So how does the Insights Discovery four-colour model help a business facing restructuring? Insights Discovery® uses a four colour model, comprised of Cool Blue, Fiery Red, Earth Green and Sunshine Yellow energies, to describe people’s strengths, styles and team contributions. The unique combination of these helps to determine why we each think and behave the way we do. Change. It’s not everybody’s favourite word or idea. For those of us who lead with Earth Green energy, in particular, it can be one of the things we fear the most. But change is inevitable and necessary. A famous quote commonly (yet disputably) attributed to Charles Darwin sums this up: “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, …
Top 10 Business Challenges
In a survey of a range of businesses, the Insights Group identified the top 10 challenges that are common to businesses across a range of sizes and cultures. So there is a pretty good chance that your biggest challenges can be found in this list below. They are: Increasing Profitability Retaining Talent Making Organisational Change Cost Reduction Changes in Personnel – People Joining Increasing Agility Getting the Best Out of Our People Generating Revenue Changes in Personnel – People Leaving Productive Relationships In no particular order (where have we heard that before…) we are publishing a series of blogs considering one of these challenges and offering ideas on how the self-awareness offered by the Insights Discovery® profile can be applied to each one. As they are published, each one will be linked to the list above. Performance – Workplace Development is …
